2011
Create a shortcut for even lower phone brightness
We're all addicted to our phones and many of us go to sleep with them in our hands 1 — so it's odd that manufacturers choose the default minimum brightness to be brighter than the sun.
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 4,416 posts.
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Tunnelmole, an ngrok alternative (open source)
Tunnelmole is a free and open-source alternative to ngrok. It works out of the box with no port forwarding or networking config needed.
2014
First Impressions with the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W has just been released, it's now got three more cores just like the RPi 3, but what is it good for and should you get one?
2015
Need a USB Cable? Build One
Personal homepage of Josef Adamcik
2016
Getting started with Raspberry Pi – Building a Digital Photo Frame
What you can do with a tiny $35 computer and how I built a digital photo frame
2017
The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information
Learn how to organize your digital life in seconds. Stop wasting time looking for information and gain greater focus on what matters most.
2018
Systematizing Sales with Software and Processes
How to move upmarket from a low-touch sales SaaS into a more rigorous sales process, without losing your sanity.
2019
Transform any text into a patent application
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Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0
Trombone emoji skanking it's way into our hearts …
2023
Storage for Photographers, Part 2
How a 12TB Synology DS415+ NAS changed my digital life: Data is eating me alive. Every gadget these days can shoot photos and record video. I captured 275GB of photos and videos on my last trip. Just one trip! And I'm just a hobbyist photographer with a mere 12MP camera. If you shoot with any regularity and a 20MP+…
2024
Everyday uses for PVC water pipe
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2025
TIL: You Can Stop Updating Copyright Attribution Years (2021)
Every January 1st, an army of open source developers rushes out to update their copyright attributions in licenses and documentation. Why? Because we’ve always done it that way.
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New Kind of Paper
Paper & pencil are the best tools for thinking. Let's enhance them!
2031
Creating my personal cloud with HashiCorp
I maintain a VPS which I use to self-host a variety of services that I use: Joplin Server, Seafile , as well as for hosting websites that I develop. For the past few years, that VPS has been managed with Docker Compose, but recently I decided to build something a bit bigger. My goals with the project:
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My Favourite Diff
I want to tell the story of one of my favourite diffs I’ve ever committed. It’s probably not the “best” by any objective measure, but it’s a personal favourite and makes for a good story to boot.
2034
GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer
Learn how and why I turned GitHub's APIs into a time-sharing supercomputer from the 1970s to execute modern batch jobs.
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Mastering Jq: Part 1
This is the first part of an ongoing series on mastering jq. jq is a valuable tool that every fast coder has in their tool chest. It contains depths of immense power. In part 1, we'll start off with the basics.
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Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs
I’ve started tracking TILs—Today I Learneds—inspired by this five-year-and-counting collection by Josh Branchaud on GitHub (found via Hacker News). I’m keeping mine in GitHub too, and using GitHub Actions to …
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Twelve LaTeX packages to get your paper accepted (2017)
(with Abhik Roychoydhury and Aditya Kanade) Why do some people get all their papers accepted, and others do not? You may already know th...
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Git from the Bottom Up (2008)
Welcome to the world of Git. I hope this document will help to advance your understanding of this powerful content tracking system, and reveal a bit of the simplicity underlying it — however dizzying its array of options may seem from the outside.